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Special Services at St. Andrews
Cathedral.
Appropriate Sermons by the Lord
Bishop of Honolulu and Rev.
Geo. WaIIaee-His Majesty.
and His Ministers
Attend.

observed In st. Andrew s CaJneuraI yeSteT-
day by special services. The first was held
at IL Is a. m, when a large congregation
was in attendance. Among those present
were noticed H. r. H. Princess Kaiulanl,
Hon. A S. Cleghorn, His Excellency Geo.
w. Merrill, United States Minister Resi-
dent, and Mrs Merrill, Major J H. WOde-
house, H. B. Ms Consul General and
Commissioner; Mr.. Justice and Mrs.
Bickerton. The Honolulu Rifles battalion,
seventy men strong, under command of
Lieut.. Col. V. " Ashford, occupied seats
in the center aisles. They presented a
very neat appearance, and their marching
to and from the church was perfect. Spe-
ciaI music was excellently rendered by the
choir as follows: TIE Deum. Barrett, in +
fiat; anthem, Thine, o Lord, is the great
ness" by Kent; .hymns, "Ten thousand
times ten thousand and "All people that
on earth do dwell" The Rev. Alexander
Macintosh intoned the service. the Rev. J..
NJ. Silver read the first lesson and the Rev.
Geo. Wallace the second.
An eloquent sermon was preached by
the Rev. George Wallace, B. D.. from the
text, ga land which the Lord thy God
careth tor" Deut. kip.
The preacher said: Englishmen every
where throughout the world will welcome
this Jubilee Festival in devout thankful
ness to God and in loyal recognition of the
noble woman and Sovereign lady who has
worn for half century the crown of
Alfred and Elizabeth. They will recall
with Just pride the traditions of England's
life and history, and show their loyalty in
carrying out to their best ability the great
ideas which have glorifed their country.
L. The first ofsthese is a profound sense
of duty To do what ought to be done, to
stand to a trust, to defend a post, and to
perform the service of the place in which
Providence has put him, is the character
istic of true Englishman. This con-
quered at Waterloo, rode to death at
BaIaklava, stood the siege at Lucknow
and marched to the rescue with Have
lock. and lead Livingstone, the explorer,
Gordon, the soldier, and Patteson, the
Cody Bishop, to the martyrs death, for
knowledge, for humanity and for God.
As life grows old feelings change and pas
sions burn out, but duty remains irwin
chile.
2. The intense love of home is another
great idea which English life has magni-
fled in the sight of all nations. The sane
tity of the home, the consecrated union of
man and wife, the training of children, the
parents exercise of guidance and wisdom,
reverence for authority and old age-these
are elements of that love of home which
is dear to the English heart. This Royal
throne of Kings; this sceptred isle; this
earth of majesty; this seat of Mars; this
fortress built by nature for herself. against
infecture and the hand of war; this happy
breed of men; this little world; this
precious stone set in the silver sea, which
serves it in the Office of wall, or as
mOat defension to a house against the
sway of less happier lands; this blessed
plat; this earth; this realm; this Eng
land" The mention of this name, or the
sight of her flag floating in the breeze,
brings up memories of old homes, old Gus
toms and old ways which have gone on
for centuries. The ear hears the music of
her holy bells, the eye catches the sweet
beauty of her country sides.
3. Closely blended with the love of home
is the English Sunday, free from the desc
Grafton of continental looseness, and free
from the gloom of Puritanical strictness.
No nation as the English nation, no race
as the Anglo-Saxon race has brought to
the work of human hands and brains the
power which comes in the rest and re-
newal of their strength in the due OBJ
servance of Gods holy day.
4. Pre-eminent among great ideas in the
English mind is liberty. Ever since the
foundation of the Heptarchy England has
been making a steady march by constitu-
tiOnal steps to broad and noble freedom.
1--WE must be free who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake."
ITO find out how far the rights of the
many are consistent with the rule of the
best; to give to every man due voice in
the government to which he must submit
and yet take from baseness and ignorance
the power to disenfranchise the educated
and the noble; so to regulate political hon
Ors that while they who serve the nation
well shall have the nations rewards and
emoluments, there never can be the weary
race of office seekers, who make life hide
Gus with their outcr1es and feed upon their
country's life and blood; to preserve Chris
fti,s2 nifty as the foundation of a nations
noweN. and yet give true religious freedom
to edncate the people, and yet be sure
there can te> no true education without
Christian morals, Christian prayer, Chris
tan faith, to realize there can be no true
freedom without the subsection of what is
base and foul and godless,-th IS the
problem which English-speakifg people IT.
both hemispheres set themselves 20 solve.
The thoughtful Englishman has hard ques
tons before him. How long loyalty to
the Crown will blend with the growing
demand for universal suffrage; how long
an aristocracy of birth will surmount the
aristocracy of money and political adj
how long the union OF Church
and State will continue, the most sagacious
political wisdom cannot predict; yet these
conditions do exist; merit can rise from
the lowest rank in life to the highest place
in the Government. Education, moral
worth, holiness of personal character, hon.
est maintenance of principle have due re-
cognition, and civil and religious liberty
prevail.
But behind these great ideas, Duty,
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